Dear all
I would be very grateful if you would bring the following vacancy to the
attention of anyone you think might be interested? Apologies for
cross-posting.
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Three Year PhD Studentship, in the Social and Spatial Inequalities
group, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield :
Worldmapping beyond mere description: mapping more than the nation
states, given what is counted, where, drawing new world maps
This PhD project seeks to build on the work of the Worldmapper team. It
will be supervised by Professor Danny Dorling. Second supervisor will be
Dr Mark Ramsden.
The Worldmapper project website (http://www.worldmapper.org) has
received more than one million unique visitors. The website visually
describes the world, mapping the contours of hundreds of variables; but
only in one way and a way easily open to criticism despite its novelty
and wide scope. The work of the PhD student, to be appointed, should
help address these potential criticisms, to work on moving the resource
beyond its current simple descriptive form. To do this will require
turning to more theoretical issues of how world resources, flows and
shares are understood, particularly visually understood – and how we
might improve on this.
Full details available at
http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/vacancies/studentship_december07.html
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Thanks
John Pritchard
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John Pritchard
Geography Department
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK
http://www.worldmapper.org
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sasi
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/pritchard_john
Tel +44(0)114 2227964
Fax +44(0)114 2797912
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